As reported instances jump 22%, local authorities have a big task – from ensuring a collaborative system operates so signs of abuse are spotted to providing ‘safe houses’ and counselling

The ‘bedroom tax’ does little for either benefits claimants or the public purse and is likely to become the poll tax of 2013, by Dr Tom Manion

As Sandwell council becomes the latest local authority to receive an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating for its ability to protect children, BASW has said that the local authority is not an isolated case and the root of this national problem lies in known workplace issues being ignored.

A hospice in Bury St Edmunds has been awarded more than £325,000 to turn a Haverhill building into a community outreach centre.

Care homes are increasingly leaving residents with dementia on their own in hospital. Why is this happening?

Tens of thousands of elderly people with dementia see friends or family just once a week, according to a landmark report warning of an “epidemic of loneliness” among Britain’s most vulnerable.

A new study of residents in specialised dementia care homes has confirmed a reduction, averaging 48 per cent, in the requirement for antipsychotic medication, together with dramatic reductions in usage of a range of other medications and a corresponding improvement in the wellbeing of participants.

A couple wrongly investigated for child abuse by the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal today told how bosses tried to “crush” them as they fought to clear their names.

A CARE worker who physically and verbally abused a woman with learning difficulties has been jailed for six months.

A member of staff at a care home has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 73-year-old resident.